Final Project

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A travel agency named "CIS Travel" has ordered your services. They would like you to develop a page that promotes their services and announcements. "CIS Travel" is a small company, so they are looking for a site that has approximately 10 pages.  

Note: This is an individual project - although you can confer with your classmates, your work should be unique. Work should also be unique from sample sites. Plagiarism from sites on the Web or other students will result in zero. It is important that the requirements are all completely understood - any missing requirements will result in lost marks.

Hand In

All web pages, graphics, and other media must be supplied at each interval so it can be marked.

You have three options for hand-in:

  1. Placing on a disk and giving to instructor prior to/on due date. Your name and 
    class should be clearly labeled on the disk. Nothing else should be on the
    disk.

  2. Email to jhamlin@talltech.com on due date (prior to 7pm) or before. The contents
    should be attached to an email and sent to the instructor account. Contents can 
    be placed in a zip file if desired. The subject line should clearly reflect the
    assignment number.

  3. Placing submission on a host that is accessible from the Internet. (your own host 
    or a free account). The URL should be emailed to the instructor account. The subject 
    line should clearly reflect the assignment number. 

Due Date

If the project is turned in by disk (option 1), the disk must be received on the last day of class: Apr 10/2000. 

If the project is turned in by email or posted, the email stating the URL (option 3) or containing the attachments (option 2) must be received by April 15/2000.

No extensions beyond these aforementioned dates will be given, and will result in zero if turned in late.

Project Details

The site that you develop should include the following pages. In some cases, you may have more than one page to satisfy the requirement.

  • Home Page

  • Bookings

  • Specials

  • Services

  • About Us

  • Contact Us

  • Site Map

They are considering an e-commerce section to the site for online booking and would like you to develop a form for their booking system. The form does not need to connect to anything as of yet, but they want to get an idea for the look and feel.

You will want to create individual page(s) for each of the above items. Utilize links and fonts to make the pages more interactive.

Some sample sites where you can get some ideas & graphics from include:

Other sites can be located by performing a keyword search in your favorite search engine. The aforementioned sites are not to be directly copied. You may use "some" of the graphics for comping purposes - however, you should be developing your own logo and navigational buttons. With respect to text, you can use pieces from sites as an example, but it should not be a direct copy.

Your project will be marked on a number of different criteria listed below. Additionally, your project will be marked on its appearance, consistency, and ease of navigation.

Each page must have:  

  • A main heading identifying your business.

  • Footer with company contact information.

  • Formatted using tables (where appropriate).

  • At least two graphics per page. Either locate graphics relevant to your company or begin to generate your own with Paint Shop Pro or another graphics program. Your graphics should have a consistent look: this is in terms of color, pattern, and style. Having graphics which “match” make them belong on your page and appear less like a collage of slapped on images.

  • Your page should contain a main company logo or title. It should also contain recurring elements of a similar color scheme in terms of bullets, rules, etc.

Within your site you must have:

  • Lists : Include a practical example of an ordered list (numbered) and an unordered list (bulleted).

  • Rate Sheet laid out with Tables - could be used for the specials page, etc.

  • Image Map for Navigation: Add a clickable image map to your company page. This clickable map should be broken down into 7 different links (for each of the sections).

  • Include a form on the page - this will be the start of their e-commerce prototype for online booking.

  • Framed Version and Non-framed Version : Create a framed version of your corporate pages. You should provide the user the ability to use either a framed or non-framed version of the site.

  • Provide a gateway page (used to introduce company and allow user to choose frames / no frames versions of the site.